But I already have Jira for that
Hi everyone! Thank you so much for your appreciation for the site (except that one guy who hated it). Pretty awesome to see this little side project make it to the front page on here.<p>I'm working on a new project called Feel (<a href="https://www.feelapp.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.feelapp.io</a>) which is an app that helps you feel all emotions on demand. It goes beyond just crying and helps you navigate and shift your mood in real time. It can make you cry too though. Or feel joy, awe, confidence, serenity, or even process difficult emotions like anger or fear when you need to.<p>This isn't an ad or shameless plug I promise - I'm actually looking for a creative developer to join the team and help us take it to the next level. Please reach out if this resonates with you or share with your creative coder friends: johnny@feelapp.io
Not gonna lie, this whole "Feel - Emotions on Demand" thing sounds like a slightly dystopian scifi concept. Maybe like a Black Mirror -style parody of how even emotions can be manufactured nowadays.
I get that reaction and see how it could sound a bit Black Mirror ish. It's literally just art and curated audiovisual experiences designed to help you feel and process your emotions though.<p>We’re already living in a scifi dystopia where our emotions are constantly being manipulated by social media, algorithms, ads, etc. Feel is an attempt to offer an intentional alternative. It's not about manufacturing emotions. It's about moving through them more consciously with greater awareness and emotional intelligence.<p>I appreciate the comparison and feedback though. I welcome it all.
Not a psychologist, but I have doubts that this is a more conscious and aware way of going through emotions. If you're so stressed about something that it makes you cry, this is a signal that there is something wrong that you need to change or takle/face in some way. If you're inducing cry once a week to relieve your stress, you're instead trying to silence the signal telling that something might be wrong. Like taking a painkiller after breaking a bone, but without taking care of the fracture that is causing the pain.
Thanks for your feedback. I'm not a psychologist either but we have top psychologists and neuroscientists on the team and the project is grounded in leading psychological and scientific research. cryonceaweek.com was actually inspired by a Japanese research project that found crying can relieve stress for up to a week.<p>I would argue that releasing your emotions isn't comparable to taking a painkiller. A painkiller numbs the problem. Letting yourself cry and feel and release your emotions brings them to the surface. I've actually received a lot of responses from people who have told me the site has helped them confront emotional issues they have been avoiding or unable to face.<p>The app goes a lot deeper than you're describing by helping you understand what you're feeling and identify/label your emotions, receive insights on why you're feeling something by identifying triggers and patterns, and then helping you shift your mood when you need to. It could maybe be considered a painkiller in the moment, but it's also a vitamin that improves your well-being and emotional intelligence over time.<p>There was actually a new study that came out recently called The Big Joy Project that found that just a few minutes per day of intentional emotional shifts can improve your well-being in a week.<p>It's super important to me that the project so grounded in sound research so this is a big focus of ours. Appreciate you sharing your perspective and feedback.
Of course, but a lot of therapy in North America nowadays becomes needed not because the patient can change fundamentals variables in their life (job, family situation), but as a coping mechanism for these variables being out of wack with no discernible path to change.<p>Its far from ideal and indeed borderline dystopian, but to borrow your metaphor, it's the difference between a fracture, and a fracture with some painkillers available.
I believe <i>Soylent Green</i> has some prior art.
Sounds like the "Penfield Mood Organ"[0] from Philip K. Dick's <i>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep</i>. Characters "dial" emotions, from basic to extremely specific (e.g. "481. Awareness of the manifold possibilities open [...] in the future", or "888 [...] The desire to watch TV, no matter what's on it")<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penfield_mood_organ" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penfield_mood_organ</a>
Wait till you learn about art, where other humans use audio visual mediums to evoke feelings. It's going to blow your mind.
That is… nothing new? At least for me, music does the same. It can make me cry, make me happy or make me angry. I can spin up a CD and get in each mood I desire. Or, and that’s the great thing about it, get out of it.
Would be a shame if someone picked those up and surreptitiously inserted them in feeds of their social network to manipulate the users' emotions- I mean, "maximize engagement"...
I've been collecting videos for years that make me shed tears. I don't easily shed tears if it feels a little too manufactured. Usually what works best for me is just seeing actual genuine unprompted emotion, though sad scenarios without any emotion can do it if the sentimentality is balanced well.<p>Tried maybe 5-6 videos on the site and none of them worked. :/ Just watched one of my old videos, boom, instant tears.<p>Don't know about the health implications of crying once a week or anything, but sometimes if I'm feeling a little out of touch with life, watching something sad does help.
Sorry it didn't work for you! Everybody is different and I tried to include a variety of universally tear-inducing videos. But of course it won't work for everyone. I've found it works for about 90% of people.<p>What videos make you cry? Curious to see how they compare. Also, not all the videos on the site are sad. Some are happy tears.
I'm curious.<p>Can you share one of those videos?<p>(None of the videos on the site made me feel bad, even slightly.)
Well the site definitely works.<p>Currently going through a extremely difficult time at the moment with my amazing cat that is dying of CKD/CHF.<p>First video this site showed me is "A scene from the movie A Dog's Purpose (2017). A family's dog reaches the end of his life."<p>Now I cant stop crying.
When my cat passed away I wept like a baby. He was my friend and companion when we travelled across the country for 10 years. It’s been 5 years since and I still tear up whenever I think about him.<p>Sending virtual hugs in your direction.
Losing a pet is heartbreak on a whole different level. Wishing you and your cat peace and comfort in whatever time you have left together
Our cat died last year due to blood clots in has back legs. He was a good cat.
So sorry to hear about your cat. Sending you strength through this difficult time.
I still miss my guy five years on. It's rough. Make the most of the time while you have it.
My cat passed from CKD last year, it sucks. I feel you man. Stay strong
Been there, sending love
My condolences <3
Hmmm... Nothing made me cry. I will diminish and go into the west.
I hope Thai Life Insurance videos are in the mix.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-B7SIVseO0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-B7SIVseO0</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6CSQvdfTKY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6CSQvdfTKY</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBobmn_u98w" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBobmn_u98w</a>
Thanks for sharing, I have my wedding in two days and have been a nervous wreck, the cry was a good release.
I thought I wouldn't cry but then I cried
I probably do need a good cry since my breath does that repeated-hesitation thing when I breathe in sometimes (not sure if there’s a name for it yet, but you also do it for a while after you’re done crying, I call it “aftershocks” then… but this is like, all the time for me now…)
I am (un)fortunate in that I'm a massive softy so don't need to bring out the big guns like this. I cried four times during Superman last week.
Oh I was bawling during the Pa Kent scene in the theater yesterday, it was so good. I also cried at the way Superman was distraught over the treatment of the monster, and then also the scene with the kid and the flag.
I haven't investigated the site because I don't want to cry <i>right now</i>, but I think it's a great idea! A good cry can be cathartic, and once a week sounds about perfect. I have a 'songs to cry to' Spotify playlist for precisely this reason.
If this doesn’t have lil brudder it’s a crime.<p>He can make it on his own!
You made me cry, you jerk! I just had eye surgery, and you make me watch a dog dying. You'll be hearing from my lawyers!
See you in court
Estelle! Is that you?
A piece of music that always makes me cry is Gavin Bryars' Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet.<p><a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_njWv6ssGZFL5TYEDOfhuGKSjpTk3B0_nI&si=6UM9--GAIOH1SKVf" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_njWv6ssGZFL5TYEDOf...</a>
Made me laugh, thank you! Laughing is healthy, though should be taken more often than once a week.
For the record, it gave me
<a href="https://player.vimeo.com/video/994963176" rel="nofollow">https://player.vimeo.com/video/994963176</a>
Crying once a week is great but as Charlie Chaplin said, a day without laughter is a day wasted, which I agree with. Happy I was able to help regardless.
Definitely thought you were a bit scary at first, but... yeah, that definitely wouldn't have made me cry lol
I find that improv classes are good sources of laughter.
As an employee of a large enterprise SaaS company I was expecting something different
Works for me. Most reliable SaaS (Sadness as a Service) I've seen in the past years.<p>I have a collection of clips that worked on me specifically which I used to gauge my state - <i>not</i> crying is a cause for concern, but over the years I got desensitised to them.<p>I'm almost afraid to ask: are Japanese Toyota ads in there?
This site brings me to tears every time I visit. Sometimes joyful, sometimes sad. Usually melancholy.<p><a href="https://thesoundof.love" rel="nofollow">https://thesoundof.love</a>
Would be nice if I could hold and download the videon on the phone to share it
How can I grab a link for a video to share that specific video?
We doomscroll all week, maybe it is time we schedule a cathartic cry like it's a dental appointment
More like going to a massage parlor. I used to work opposite one of those. Believe me, whatever you think you can imagine on the faces of men as they walked out that door, you really have to have seen it. Even I couldn't find the heart to catcall abuse, not even at the men who'd already put back on or never taken off their rings.
Yes! You get it
Bandai Namco made a (Japanese-only) DS / Mobile game that did the same thing, 99 No Namida. Got a tiny bit of western media coverage due to the absurdity.
Hitachi story made me cry. Having my best friend here right now (Yorkshire), working with me, is especially hard to watch.
Well, I was reassured I'm just a cynical old bastard, so that's worth something, I guess. To me all the videos I saw, around a dozen, were all (by accident?) emotional cheap-shots, the low-hanging fruit of manipulation. For example: When I see a clip of Brooks Hatlen, the elderly librarian from The Shawshank Redemption, make his final voyage after being released, I get shown an old man take his own life (spoiler! but the movie is 30 years old now, so c'mon). That itself is somewhat sad, yes, but the feelings come from the context of the movie and what the viewer is shown before. So the clip falls flat, even with knowledge of the movie/book. Simply getting shown sad things does not make me cry, especially in short clips out of context.
I've made plenty of websites that made my boss cry.
I watched this with my girlfriend. I can confirm that your domain name is completely accurate.
Marley and me, just did it for me.. I don't think I've ever cried like this since I was a kid.
Great idea. To reduce the likelihood of repeat draws, maybe you could check out decay weighting.
Looking at eyeball stuff like [these surgery videos][1] gets me every time.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK7qSjp3kvZqH6muR6Oa3vt0X0_CyUVFB" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK7qSjp3kvZqH6muR6Oa3...</a>
how is this legal due to copyright issues?
When did you launch this? 300 tiktok followers in a day seems like great engagement
although I didnt cry the video I watched opened my eyes and just made me feel happy which is cool
I want this in literally every other emotion, except for anger, because there's already a site for that called reddit.com
IT here. I don't need a website; I have users.
I've been in SWE in non-enterprise for decades and right now I'm seated with IT and operations because our two teams total less than 15. The amount of users who open tickets with "I have this issue" and then send a screenshot of some error in a browser with absolutely no context... Not even the full browser image, just a small snapshot of the completely meaningless error... As though they expect the IT support people to just know what they were doing? My twin todlers who haven't learned to speak yet are still somehow better at telling me what is wrong when something is wrong.<p>I'm always amazed at how friendly the IT support people manage these things.
I miss alt.sysadmin.recovery
It is with the confidence of decades of experience that I can say that the problem is that you have a bad attitude about your job.<p>(I have elaborated on this in the past: <<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164086">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164086</a>>)
this is a you problem. Worked in IT over 20 years, never been angry. Perhaps you should change careers.
Twitter and facebook are far more effective for that.
I'm actually making this: <a href="https://www.feelapp.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.feelapp.io</a>
What's a good subreddit for crying? All I get is ragebait and recycled punchlines
First video was about Hachiko and it made me cry. Bookmarked, will revisit in a week. Thank you for making this.
I was like this website isn't going to make me cry.<p>Then it shoves a knife through my heart with a montage of that dog movie. Well done.
Driving to work is sufficient for my daily cry.
Thanks, but for that i have plenty of at work.
What you made a portfolio tracker for my stocks?
I already cry once or twice a week, usually when going to sleep.
The amount of javascript I had to allow made me cry. Unfortunately browsing with No-Script seems to block much of the functionality. But otherwise a cool project!
It'll not be long before the UK gov add crying to the online safety bill, so enjoy this while you can, people of the UK.
I actually prefer to laugh
Is it just the first ten minutes of Up?
I clicked. I didn't cry.
what website? BTW who the heck is chopping onions next to me?
I like it. Thank you for showing.
Does what it says on the label.
> <i>Studies show crying can relieve stress for a week.</i><p>Correlation, causation, etc?<p>I.e. I can easily imagine that, if something is seriously weighting on your mind, opening up about it and even crying would reduce stress.<p>It might even be the other way: That once people get a moment to de-stress and get a chance to mentally process some devastating event, they will cry.<p>I find it much harder to believe that just crying about some random, unrelated thing will magically make you more relaxed.
Emotions aren't so black and white and I think both can be true. Sometimes letting yourself feel and release your emotions, even with something unrelated, opens up your capacity to confront something. The site is based on scientific and psychological research. There are plenty of studies but here is one if you want to check it out: <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/benefits-of-a-good-cry-crying-science_n_55dca26fe4b0a40aa3ac4e30" rel="nofollow">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/benefits-of-a-good-cry-crying...</a>
If you ask AI to recommend or gen a video to make you cry, it may just show you a video of someone cutting onions.
I haven't felt anything in years. I am dead inside.
Damn, I had no idea Richard Gere was Japanese
Can I "upvote" / "downvote" the videos? I got "unlucky" and the two I saw didn't made me cry.
You can answer the questionnaire after the video that asks you if it made you cry or not.
Yeah they showed me ET, which I first saw at a very young age. While it might have been a tearjerker for some, it was one of the first horror movies I watched and just watching the clip was a trigger. What kind of sick bastard designs a horrifying alien instead of a cutesy one for a kids movie?
whatcha gonna do about it, cry?
Alternatively, you can watch one episode of Violet Evergarden once a week.
pfff Already do this. Monday in the shower before work .
woof. Two deeply moving clips back to back.
I don't get it, is the design made to make you cry?
Seems that website is hosted on cloudflare and doesn't open in Russia, which blocks all cloudflare traffic. This makes me cry, thanks!
App works 100%
Very thoughtful of you to have written a comment that makes me laugh as a response to a website that made me cry.
Mission accomplished
the fact that it doesn't open in russia makes me happy, to be honest
Yes, of course. Russians are, in fact, not people and do not deserve to view Western sites, media or actually any web service hosted by Western nations.<p>What kind of a take is this? If you strategically block an entire nation from viewing our sites and media, you're handing the state-run media there more power.
FYI Russian ISPs are blocking Cloudflare, Cloudflare isn’t blocking Russia.
> What kind of a take is this?<p>The take of the Russian government?
Xenophobia is good because our NATO/US overlords which don't engage in propaganda tell us to hate our enemies. Then in X years they stop being our enemies and we point our irrational hate to someone else. It's also useful because you can label any dissenter as "pro Russian".<p>The McCarthy strategy/red scare is very effective.<p>We're the good guys though. Remember that. If we admit any wrongdoing ever, that's just history and now we are good. Or else.
I'm currently in Russia trying to get a US visa for my CS PhD. Because I do CS, I got into a thing called administrative processing. For 95% of people, it takes days -- weeks, tops. Because of the colour of my passport, it has already lasted for 3 months. I know people who are waiting for 2 years to pass it.<p>Why do you think I shouldn't have access to this website in Russia?
> the fact that it doesn't open in russia makes me happy, to be honest<p>Mind to explain why?
As if the news and state of the planet weren't enough.
The planet is stateless.
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Is that what they mean by cryotherapy? ;)<p>Anyway, this seems to be a covert ad for <a href="https://www.feelapp.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.feelapp.io/</a>.
It's how funnels should work. Show a sample and if people want more, they can go to <a href="https://www.feelapp.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.feelapp.io/</a><p>Sadly, they have a waitlist, so I'll just come by on the next funnel.
How do I know your comment isn't a covert ad for <a href="https://www.feelapp.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.feelapp.io/</a>.
It's not a covert ad, that's just my new project
"Furiko (Pendulum), a Japanese short film about the passing of time."<p>Well that was fun.. :)<p>Didn't make me cry, but came close. I don't know if i feel stress relieved. It made me feel even more aware of my own mortality and mistakes i made/make in life. Don't feel particulary happy or relieved.<p>So i clicked again<p>"A scene from the movie Steel Magnolias (1989). A woman mourns the loss of her daughter. (6:44 min)"<p>Oh hell no..<p>Third and last attempt<p>"A scene from the movie Bambi (1942). Bambi mourns the loss of his mother. (02:47 min)"<p>You sure this is about stress relieving? :)
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This is bad. If you want some emotional art therapy, go actually watch something, whether it's something you already appreciate or something new that you are willing to try. Content poaching wrapped up as pseudoscientific wellness product is just exploitative.